CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1951/08/25

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• Collection: Current/Central Intelligence Bulletin Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02739459
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• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: April 15, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2019
• Publication Date: August 25, 1951

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25 August 1951
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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
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Office of Currprit Intelligence
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SUMMARY
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3. "Reign of terror" reported on Formosa (page 4).
SOUTH ASIA
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5. Alert of British air transport in Suez Canal Zone reported (page 6).
EASTERN EUROPE
6. Ambassador Allen recommends small military mission to administer
Yugoslav aid program (page 6).
WESTERN EUROPE
France approves suspension of Czech overflight privileges (page 71.
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"Reign of terror" reeprted on Formosa:
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15 August "a reign of terror" has been conduc-
ted by the army and police on Formosa under
the guise of a "census" check. The purpose of
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the check is to round up mote than 15,000 deserters from the _army awl over
7, 000 Formosan recruits who have failed to make proper register as require*
and, in general, to conscript all men between 18 and 30 who are not engaged
in essential work. 3.3(h)(2)
The fact that many soldiers recruited in 1950
died of starvation and disease and the fear that, once inducted, they will be
unable to leave military service has reportedly made the Formosans hie3-.3-42)
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suicide and desertion are a serious problem
in all branches of the armed forces.
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5. Alert of British air transport in Suez Canal Zone reported:,
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"Authentic information" that British air trans-
port in the Suez Canal Zone is on a six-hour
alert is reported by the US Consul at Nicosia,
Cyprus, who assumes this is due to the Iranian
situation. He has also noted unusual convoy movements in Cyprus.
Comment: British air transport facilities have
been on alerts ranging from four to 24 hours at various times during the
Iranian crisis. It is not clear whether the airlift would be for troop transport
or for civilian evacuation; so far as is known, the UK Government still in-
tends to take "necessary measures" to protect its nationals only if the Iran-
ian Government fails to do so.
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6. Ambassador Allen recommends small mission to administer Yugo-
slav aid program:
Ambassador Allen believes that there are strong
reasons against the� immediate establishment of
a standard military mission in Belgrade to
supervise the US military assistance program.
Chief of Staff Popovie strongly opposes the idea for administrative reasons
and Allen believes that the proposal will be resisted on political grounds as
well.
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Allen also doubts that the contemplated
mission of approximately fifty men would find suitable Yugoslav working
counterparts. He favors, therefore, the establishment of a nucleus of a
mission, consisting of possibly ten or fifteen men, within the staff of the
present US service attaches to carry out normal MAAG functions. If this
proposal is adopted, Allen intends to explain to Tito that the group must
have direct access to Yugoslav staff organs rather than having to deal with
the Yugoslav foreign liaison unit, which is the case for attaches.
Comment: The Defense Department has pro-
posed a military mission of at least fifty men to handle the US arms aid
program for Yugoslavia. Chief of Staff Popovic recommended, during his
recent visit to the US, that the staff of US service attaches in Belgrade be
expanded to handle the aid program.
WESTERN EUROPE
7. Trance approves suspension of Czech overflight privileges:
The French Cabinet on 22 August approved a
suspension of Czech overflight privileges in
Western Germany as a measure of solidarity
with the US, according to a Foreign Office
spokesman.
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The spokesman added that the French have had
no satisfaction whatever from the Czech Government in the cases of two
French citizens now serving long-term sentences.
Comment: Within the past two weeks, the
French rejected US proposals to suspend overflight privileges and with-
draw tariff concessions from the Czechs, apparently because of concern for
the economic losses involved. The reversal of the French position may be
intended in part to strengthen France's hand in holding out for exceptions to
export control arrangements.
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